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Ekman boundary layers in a domain with topography

Analysis of PDEs 2024-07-25 v1

Abstract

We investigate the asymptotic behaviour of fast rotating incompressible fluids with vanishing viscosity, in a {three dimensional} domain with topography including the case of land area. Assuming the initial data is well-prepared, we prove a convergence theorem of the velocity fields to a two-dimensional vector field solving a linear, damped ordinary differential equation.The proof is based on a weak-strong uniqueness argument, combinedwith an abstract result implying that the weak convergence of a familyof weak solutions to the Navier-Stokes-Coriolis system can be translated into a form of uniform-in-time convergence.This argument yields strong convergence of the velocity fields, without a precise rate though.

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@article{arxiv.2407.17050,
  title  = {Ekman boundary layers in a domain with topography},
  author = {Jean-Yves Chemin and Francesco Fanelli and Isabelle Gallagher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.17050},
  year   = {2024}
}
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